Re: Loader goes to LINES=16 and kernel stays on that :(

From: Toomas Soome <tsoome_at_me.com>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2025 22:15:08 UTC

> On 11. May 2025, at 00:31, Bjoern A. Zeeb <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 10 May 2025, Toomas Soome wrote:
> 
> [..]
>>> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D50258
> [..]
> 
>> It would be really nice if you could test it.Thanks,
>> Toomas
> 
> On it;  I'll reboot as soon as buildworld dedicded to rebuild half my obj
> despite only applied the one change.  I thought on main this is all
> incremental these days. *sigh*.
> 
> I assume there is no way to fix this manually as a user (change the settings
> from within loader) at least for the next stage (kernel)?
> 
> I don't know much about all this;  I tried vidcontrol later from the console
> to at least be able to read a few more lines only to get some ioctl errors.
> 

oh, yes, you can set font manually, set screen.font=16x32 for example. Only the autoselect with EDID data available was missing the check. manual selection and autoselect without EDID is ok.

rgds,
toomas